Thanksgiving: A truly American holiday for Jews and Gentiles alike

One of American Jewry's oldest family, the Guggenheims, found Thanksgiving was the most important holiday, even more than the Jewish holidays.

Phineas Nunes Cardozo and his wife Sophie Isaacs Cardozo emigrated to the U.S. from England in 1823. They were Sephardi Jews who belonged to Bevis Marks in London, the oldest synagogue in the United Kingdom, which was affiliated with the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community.

When will these settlers leave their settlements and return the stolen
lands to the indigneous native americans??? Or is there a certain point
in time when an occupation is no longer an occupation? If so, we are 45
years and there is not long to go before it becomes ok.

American Thanksgiving is not a Christian Holiday in the least. It is a
day for thanking the G-d of all Creation for His blessings upon the
United States of America. But America is not alone; there are also
other nations that have the same holiday, e. g., Canada. And just for
the record, the United States of America and it's mostly Judeo-Christian
(that means Jews and Christian faiths based upon Judaic principles)
population, all worship the same G-d of Isra'el. The holiday is based
upon Sukkot, in fact. But even with all of that, some of the Native
American tribes of the United States of America also celebrate holidays
very similar to Sukkot at the same time at the same moon. And quite
interesting, they worship "Elohay". To say that Thanksgiving
is a Christian holiday is without knowledge of its roots. Jews should
be honored that the light of G-d has shone upon any nation that would
want to emulate them in any way. The United States of America so highly
esteems the G-d of iIsrael that it built it's national cathedral altar
from stones from Israel. Israel should take great pride in its
influence upon mankind instead of always criticizing mankind's pathway
to find the Creator.

Mayflower, Thanksgiving is about Families coming together. They came
together as one. FYI - Pilgrim's beliefs were : Predestination, infant
baptism, denial of the Catholic sacraments. What about the Native
Americans that were already living there and shared how to hunt, live,
survive? Pilgrims later killed Native Americans for More instead of
being great full that G-d took them to new land.

Not "Pilgrims later". It should be "Later Pilgrims".
Meaning ones that came later in time, and often from different places
with different interests. Americans are/were never from the same place,
nor are they of the same mind or actions. Learn American history. Not
all tribes and pilgrims were hostile to each other. In fact, many got
along. However common viruses for which natives had no defense, did most
of the killing. Yes fighting occurred, but this is the history of man,
such as it is even in the middle east in 2012.

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